There’s a follow-up to an incident reported by DataBreaches.net in January and February involving CoPilot Provider Services. As I had reported in January, CoPilot took more than one year to notify individuals of a breach involving their web site, and would not answer any questions as to why it took so long. As I subsequently…
Category: Health Data
Ca: Health authority pays $1m in privacy lawsuit
Jordan Parker reports: Hundreds of Nova Scotian hospital patients may get to share a $1-million settlement in a case involving breaches of their privacy. Halifax’s Wagners Law Firm has reached a proposed settlement with a former provincial health authority and if it’s approved will offer $1,000 each to nearly 700 plaintiffs they represent in a…
Former Durango Family Medicine patients warned of security breach
Jonathan Romeo reports: Former patients of Durango Family Medicine were alerted last week of a breach of private health information, which could include such things as medical conditions and social histories. On June 6, Terry Cipoletti, an attorney with Caplan & Earnest LLC, sent out a letter about the security breach, saying Durango Family Medicine…
HHS is considering changes to OCR’s ‘wall of shame’—and experts are divided on the impact
Evan Sweeney reports: The Department of Health and Human Services is exploring potential changes to the agency’s “wall of shame,” a legislatively mandated website that tracks healthcare data breaches dating back to 2009. During a hearing addressing cybersecurity concerns in healthcare last week, Leo Scanlon, deputy chief information security officer at HHS, told Rep. Michael…
You shot the messenger and then needed her help? How did that work out for you?
Some readers might appreciate an update as to what happened when Bronx-Lebanon Hospital Center and iHealth Solutions sent legal threat letters to this site after I notified them and reported that they were leaking protected health information. As I previously noted, I was – and remain – very grateful to Covington & Burling for their representation of me and this…
NC: Guidance counselor steals students’ info in $400K Medicaid scam
Carla Field reports: A man who was a public school guidance counselor and who owned a counseling service admitted in court Wednesday to using information about some of his elementary school students in a $400,0000 Medicare scam. Joseph Frank Korzelius, 46, of Tryon, North Carolina, pleaded guilty to health care fraud. Korzelius, who owns Western…